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Antikythera Mechanism

Posted by gregole on December 8, 2014
Posted in: Travel. Tagged: Technology. 4 Comments

Antikythera.  I’m pronouncing it something like “Auntie – Kithera”.  Hope that’s close.

http://gym-peir-athin.att.sch.gr/programms/programms.htm

Antikythera is actually a place.  It’s a small island Continue Reading

The People’s Choice

Posted by gregole on December 7, 2014
Posted in: Poetry and Literature. Tagged: Poetry. 1 Comment

http://www.rarebookcellar.com/ap_curtis_zahn.html

The People’s Choice Continue Reading

Friday Photos – Sunrise Sunset

Posted by gregole on December 6, 2014
Posted in: Travel. Tagged: Photography. 6 Comments

First a couple of sunrises taken from the perspective of starting a workday.

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Thursday Links Space Edition

Posted by gregole on December 5, 2014
Posted in: Science. Tagged: Space. 2 Comments

I realize we’ve been focusing on space but that’s because number one, it’s extremely cool, and number two, there are a lot of great things that have been going on – and there’s far more than I can blog on so here’s some cool sites so you can follow the fun: Continue Reading

Venus? No, Orion!

Posted by gregole on December 4, 2014
Posted in: Travel. Tagged: Space. 8 Comments

After the interesting discussion of the planet Mercury yesterday, I was going to do Venus tonight, but something came up:  Continue Reading

Planets

Posted by gregole on December 3, 2014
Posted in: Travel. Tagged: Space. 2 Comments

You know, I want to blog on deep-space tracking stations, but to do that I needed to review deep-space missions and before that I need to…Yeah.  It’s a big subject so I’m going to break things down a bit Continue Reading

Five Bridges

Posted by gregole on December 2, 2014
Posted in: Travel. Tagged: Architecture. 2 Comments

While poking around on the internet looking for underwater cities – hey I’m not even going to start considering a personal submarine until there are some underwater cities to party in – I stumbled across Continue Reading

Western Art at Phoenix Art Museum

Posted by gregole on December 1, 2014
Posted in: High Culture. Tagged: Art. 3 Comments
Your Host

Your Host – I’m the one wearing the hat!

So there I was, minding my own business at home on Sunday afternoon, meditating on the inevitable reality (is there any other kind of “reality” other than the inevitable kind?) that tomorrow morning, after a Cinderella-like four-day holiday, it was back to work!  And then it hit me. Continue Reading

More About People

Posted by gregole on November 30, 2014
Posted in: Poetry and Literature. Tagged: Poetry. 1 Comment

When people aren’t asking questions
They’re making suggestions Continue Reading

Photo Friday – Holiday Season Primer

Posted by gregole on November 29, 2014
Posted in: Travel. Tagged: Photography. 2 Comments

Let the Holidays begin – Photo Friday takes a look at the first blush of Holiday time 2014: Continue Reading

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